After one month of intense battles between thousands of new recruits, we are happy to release version 1.1 of Memoir '44 Online!

Introducing Expert Mode

The long-awaited Expert Mode is now available! It allows you to play your own scenarios in Solo mode or against your friends. It also allows you to publish one scenario for other players to play.

Here is how it works. Design your own scenario using the Memoir '44 Scenario Editor and save it to the Days of Wonder Online storage area. Launch Memoir '44 Online, go to the Headquarters screen (the lobby) and click on the "My Scenarios" tab. You will see your scenario there. Select it and push the Play Solo button to try it.

You may also play your scenario with your friends by inviting them. To do so, select your scenario and another Expert player, and push the Invite button. Have fun!

Once you are happy with your scenario, you can make it available to the community. However, keep in mind that you are allowed to publish only one scenario. So make sure you publish your very best scenario. You want to publish something that will bring praises and recognition from your peers! Published scenarios appear in the "SFTF" tab (which stands for "Scenarios From The Front").

Battles played from the "My Scenario" tab cost 2 GI. Battles played from the "SFTF" area cost 3 GI.

Note that access to the Expert Mode is available only to players who purchased this option (included in the Captain Pack and Major Pack).

One last word: in the Memoir '44 Scenario Editor, there are several special rules that are not available yet. For example, you cannot activate the Russian Commissar or the Night Visibility Rules, etc. These options will come in future versions of the Editor.

New Installation Procedure

The installer was reduced in size from 137 MB down to 43 MB! But don't worry, we are not magicians. We simply separated the 94 MB of graphic files from the installer. These are downloaded later on, the first time you restart the game.

So be patient at the game restart, while all the graphics are downloaded.

Now the good news: this is the last time you will do this. Since graphics rarely change, next time you download a new version it will only be the light installer, and you will be playing again in no time!

Two New Scenarios

You will find two new scenarios from the Eastern Front: Battle of Warsaw and Rzhev. Will you succeed in holding the Warsaw fortresses?

New Achievements

Are you an Armor Veteran? Prove it by earning the "Armor Driving License", the "Armor Excellence" and the "Michael Wittmann" achievements.

You can now choose if you want your hand to be sorted automatically for you or if you want to do it yourself. Go to the Settings screen to choose the option you like the best. If you choose "Unsorted Hand", you will be able to organize your hand yourself by holding down the Shift key and click-and-dragging your cards around.

How to upgrade?

As before, simply launch the game. It will automatically detect the new version and download it. Make sure to follow the instructions that appear on your screen, if any.

If you have problems, you can always go to http://www.memoir44-online.com and download the software again. Nothing will be lost, since all your profile information is stored in your DOW Online account.

Details of improvements and bug fixes:

- New Expert Mode
- [UI] Suggestion to re-arrange cards
- [Achievement] Armor driving license
- [Scenario] Battle of Warsaw
- [Scenario] Rzhev
- [Roads / NADR] NADR should not be limited to road hex even if armor only moved on the road hex
- [BEL / Retreat] BEL should not freeze when the attack is ambushed and the attacker must retreat
- [Hospital / Air power] Hospital should not ask the attacker if he wants to heal the unit
- [Robot / ignore flag] Robot should ignore the flag, or not, but not freeze in this battle
- [Ambush / Retreat] retreating more than 1 hex away should not teleport the attacker
- [Lobby] selecting a player should display his details, and never trigger the error view
- [Lobby] should not freeze when displaying the players list
- [Auto-ignore] should be restored after a game
- [core] Password with special characters should not freeze the client
- [Core] muted (swearing) player should be un-muted after a while
- [Robot] should support when Russian play first
- [Into the cauldron] The "Decoy medal" is illegible
- Various fixes in game engine

This error happened on both sides.
When battling with armor, bot will not let armor take ground and then move an extra hex.
Sometimes when it does allow extra movement, the bot shows that you can move 3 hexes instead of just the one extra.

Memoir '44 Online Beta 1.1

1st Armoured to the Rescue

stevens (Allies) vs. Cityman (Axis)

This error happened on both sides.
When battling with armor, bot will not let armor take ground and then move an extra hex.
Sometimes it allows the extra hex of movement, but then when you make the extra movement your turn ends and you don't get to battle again
for your overrun.

You have no idea how frustrating this can be to line up the battle and then be denied movement. This bug is awful......
This happened in both games. Once or twice it worked but it is intermittent and frustrating.

Basically, what happens is that your extra-move depends on the number of movements that you have left. So for example, if you moved only 1 hex before attacking, and you perform an armor overrun, then you should be able to move again one more extra move. You'll see 2 hex moves proposed for this extra move. You actually can do only one (which is correct).

BUT if you exhausted your movement capacity before your attack, you won't be able to do this extra move at all after the overrun (you can still do the overrun movement).

This bug was introduced when addressing a small issue related to tanks on roads in the context of North African Desert Rules. It escaped our tests.

We apologize for this serious issue. It is going to take us 24 hours to come up with a fix and test it. So until tomorrow, we suggest you stay away from the Mediterranean Theater.

"What is the meaning of the * asterisk in the second column of the players list?"

This indicates a player who is currently playing a game in Expert Mode (i.e. on a scenario he made).

Some more tips: the "Show" pop-up menu has an "Experts" item that will show you all players who have the Expert mode enabled on their account. Likewise, an * asterisk is displayed in the player's info panel.

Have several questions about the expert mode. I published one scenario into that area and here are my findings:

1. Expert games do not count towards player's rating, right? I did not notice any changes to the score after I played it with two people. Is this supposed to be so?
2. Expert games do not earn statistic calculations e.g. average medals, etc. Why?
3. It still reads that the scenario has not been played by anyone. Must deal with the previous item.
4. Do players earn achievements when playing scenarios SFTF?
5. Also I noticed that scenario details do not get updated after I re-save changes to the scenario. However when you are inside the game, it would be the most recent version of the scenario. Looks like description and some details get 'cashed' somehow.

Have several questions about the expert mode. I published one scenario into that area and here are my findings:

1. Expert games do not count towards player's rating, right? I did not notice any changes to the score after I played it with two people. Is this supposed to be so?

Correct.

mescalito wrote on Wed, 06 July 2011 22:22

2. Expert games do not earn statistic calculations e.g. average medals, etc. Why?

That looks like a bug.

mescalito wrote on Wed, 06 July 2011 22:22

3. It still reads that the scenario has not been played by anyone. Must deal with the previous item.
4. Do players earn achievements when playing scenarios SFTF?

Yes that's the same issue

mescalito wrote on Wed, 06 July 2011 22:22

5. Also I noticed that scenario details do not get updated after I re-save changes to the scenario. However when you are inside the game, it would be the most recent version of the scenario. Looks like description and some details get 'cashed' somehow.

Yes, the scenarios textual content is cached for the duration of the session. You actually need to quit and relaunch the game to fetch the latest version.
If that proves to be a problem, we might had a "time to live" feature...

Thanks for the quick response. Hopefully you guys can fix the issue with stats soon, I already created a topic to encourage players to test the scenario, probably other people will identify something additionally.

Congratulations to the Days of Wonder staff for the excellent 1.1 update to Memoir '44. I have now had a chance to play the two new regular scenarios and the brand new "Straight From The Front" scenario. They are all wonderful and wonderful additions to the original list of 41. Memoir '44 provides great value today and great promise for tomorrow.

I've also enjoyed the card sorting the other minor enhancements provided in this update. The responsiveness to our requests and the attention to detail are greatly appreciated.

I'm sure the staff hears nothing but gripes and bug reports all day long, so I'm here to say: "Job well done. Very well done, indeed."

I have downloaded 1.1.2, but I see it that when I click the Installer App, it says it says I am installing 1.1.0. It does the whole process, and then it auto-launches the app, only to tell me I have the old version and it starts downloading 1.1.2 again... Help?

I have downloaded 1.1.2, but I see it that when I click the Installer App, it says it says I am installing 1.1.0. It does the whole process, and then it auto-launches the app, only to tell me I have the old version and it starts downloading 1.1.2 again... Help?

Are you on Mac or Windows? Which version of the Operating System?

Do you have Administrator rights on your machine?

Can you please confirm that you downloaded the 1.1.2 installer from the Web site? Were you doing a complete new install or were you installing over a previous version?

At first I logged on to the game, and it told me there was an update. It automatically started the download. I cant remember exactly if it did the next step or if I manually selected the updater, but when it didnt work I restarted my comp to see if that would work.

When this didnt work I went direct to the website and tried a download, with the same result.

Whenever I launch the updater it tells me I am running the 1.1.0 Setup.

At first I logged on to the game, and it told me there was an update. It automatically started the download. I cant remember exactly if it did the next step or if I manually selected the updater, but when it didnt work I restarted my comp to see if that would work.

When this didnt work I went direct to the website and tried a download, with the same result.

Whenever I launch the updater it tells me I am running the 1.1.0 Setup.

Surely you must be opening the wrong DMG file. I just tried, upgrading from a 1.0 and from a 1.1, and it worked great in both cases.

Could you please try the following:

- UNMOUNT any volume named M44Online (use the Eject button)
- Download M44Online_1_1_2.dmg from the Web site
- Make sure you open this one (and no other one)
- Launch the installer. You should see 1.1.2 in the title bar of the window. If it is not the case, you are using the wrong DMG file.

How do I get my new scenario onto the SFTF? Is it only scenarios specially selected by the staff? If so, how do I convince you that it is an excellent scenario that should be on SFTF? I can only see it in "My Scenarios", and even there I can't read any info or see the preview pic when I make it public in the scenario editor. I tried to upload it again as a new scenario, but then a new problem came up - I can't seem to delete the old one again, so now I have two almost identical scenarios with the same name on "My Scenarios". Please help!